Château Léoville Poyferré, Saint-Julien Deuxième Cru, 2008

Château Léoville Poyferré, Saint-Julien Deuxième Cru, 2008One of the finest over achieving efforts in this vintage as well as a best buy for a top flight St. Julien, this 2008 is an irresistible success. It reveals an opaque ruby purple color, lots of unctuosity and a boatload of sweet cassis and black cherry fruit intertwined with notions of licorice, smoke and oak. Full bodied, remarkably concentrated and stunningly pure and textured, this sensational wine is already drinking well, and will be even better

A long period of ageing in oak barrels was needed to round off this very powerful wine

complementing the strengths and complexities of these individual parcels of fruit

it was common practice

complex and highly evolved nose

Aged in barrels with longstanding experience in keeping exceptional wines of the same style

Progressing from golden to deep amber depending on its age

considering what was expected from this vintage

medium-sized clusters with smaller berries than in previous years

Deep bright red

There are also lots of roasted herbs

soaked in wine by the soleras system

This legendary Suduiraut is still coming into its own and requires a little more patience